Австралия4835, ABC VL8A Alice Springs, 1235, July 31. Live coverage of the Olympic boxing match between Australia and Cuba;1300 “This is Olympic game coverage on A-B-C Grandstand, London 20-12”; “Stay connected. Have your say . . on 783 A-B-C Alice Springs Facebook page”; “Grandstand on A-B-C Local Radio, carrying on the Olympic tradition”; into the ABC news. At tune in RA was not carrying this Olympic coverage, but was later. Edited MP3 audio posted at https://www.box.com/s/b6417e5a6dcb026e00a1

Боливия6134.9, August 1 at 0222, surprised to hear Spanish here, as it`s after the usual sign-off of R. Santa Cruz; fair signal in the clear and no bonker or other QRM,. String of ads, for a doctor, PSAs for department of Santa Cruz mentioned; 0224 back to a Mexican music show hosted by YL --- Lopez, with Los Tigres del Norte. Well, that compensates for the deadair on XEPPM!

Whatever became of the CP## callsigns for Bolivian broadcasters? WRTH dropped them years ago, but Bill Hepburn researches official documents to find them even if never mentioned: http://www.dxinfocentre.com/Call_Signs.htmHe does not include any SW from Bolivia, but RSC`s MW is 960, and the listed call for that is CP32; the SW one was probably different .

Гватемала4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0535-0608*, 05-08, male with religious comments in English, identification in various languages at 0558 "Estacion Evangelica Radio Verdad", anthem and close down at 0608. 14321.

9315, August 2 at 0202, R. Cairo English to N America sesquihour is still here, despite alleged plans to switch to 9720. Modulation is so poor I can`t confirm it`s really English, but nothing on 9720. With splatter QRM from their own Arabic trash transmitter on 9305, so if for no other reason, they really should move the English to unimpeded 9720.

15610, August 2 at 0401, Qur`an with flutter, undermodulated, not // Saudi Qur`an on 15170. But 15610 cut off abruptly at 0405* --- Allah`ll get `em for that! Thought it might be runover from previous hour but HFCC shows it was start of R. Cairo Swahili service, 04-06, 250 kW, 170 degrees from Abu Zabaal. No doubt fixing R. Cairo is not even a blip on the Moslem Brotherhood to-do roster

ИндияToday 1320 UTC Obs4850 kHz AIR Kohima not available - off air4750 BGD great as usual4775 kHz Imphal nice clear signal but low modulation4990 kHz Itanagar Great Signal4940 kHz Guwahati good & steady4910 kHz Jaipur fair but high splash from 4920/4905 China4895 kHz Kurseong fair but low modulation4880 kHz Lucknow nice & clear As good as usual4835 kHz Gangtok fair with local thunderstorms4821 kHz Kolkata much better than other days even with co channel 48204810 kHz Bhopal good signal but splash from 4820...4800 kHz Hyderabad weak and down under China4760 kHz Port Blair faint

BTW – AIR Guwahati (4940) for me is usually totally covered by a strong Voice of Strait (China) and AIR Gangtok (4835) is totally covered by ABC Alice Springs (Australia). RRI Makassar dominates for me on 4750.

Иран11920, August 5 at 0327, VIRI musical prelude/IS, fair signal and nothing on 13 MHz yet; 0330 three chimes and V. of Justice ID, opening to NAm, now also on // 13650 as announced, unheard on 99.5 MHz for Tehran, online or satellite. 0332.5 into Qur`an for three minutes --- do they really think this is the best way to greet a non-Islamic audience?

After that, announcer rather muffled and hard to understand. By 0408, 13650 is stronger than 11920 interviewing someone with American accent, but 13650 now also has CCI making copy even harder, presumably R. Cairo in Swahili as scheduled from 0400. VIRI still hasn`t managed to find two clear frequency-hours a day for its only North American service in English

Китай6040, PBS Nei Menggu (Mongolian Service). After 1200 heard mixing with NBC Port Moresby on July 30. On July 31 NBCwas off the air leaving PBS Nei Menggu in the clear after 1200; // 7270; usual indigenous chanting/singing

Корея Северная5985.0, Shiokaze/Sea Breeze via Yamata. July 31 (Tuesday) is still their favorite day to broadcast Chinese (scheduled from 1330 to 1400) and Korean (scheduled from 1400 to 1430); fair; best in LSB due to Myanmar; checked at 1333 and1405

Кувейт15540 Radio Kuwait 3 August at 2040. Usual selection of western dance/disco songs and brief news at 2050. Signed off with correct frequency announcements - no mention any more of the non-existant morning shortwave transmission, and announcing 15540 for the 1800UT evening transmission. TX off promptly at 2100, immediately after the National Anthem.

Мавритания7245, August 2 at 0503, Arabic speech from IGIM, on early again, with SSB QRhaM, no doubt for all those Ramadan breakfasters. Sunrise in Nouakchott is currently 0643 UT, somewhat earlier in most of the country eastward

Новая ЗеландияAn hour ago, RNZI must have been having technical difficulties. At 02:58 tune-in, 17675 was in AM, not DRM with test tones (I've never heard that before from RNZI) and an otherwise open carrier, in AM. 15720 was also in AM, but carrying RNZI programming. When rechecked at 03:58, all is back to normal with RNZI booming in with SNR of 26.6 dB, and no drop-outs at all.....

Россия15110, August 5 at 0411, Tatarstan Wave is underway as EiBi denotes it; had open carrier as early as 0350 before 0410 opening. Recheck at 0458 singing, 0459 closing in Russish as ``Programa Tatarstana``. Is really 60 degrees from Samara, RUSSIA site

Румыния11795 // 9645, August 5 at 0325, RRI in English much stronger on WNAm frequencies than // 11895 and DRM noise on 15340 for Asia. This broadcast continues past 0330, on UT Sunday with multi-station produxion dubbed `Euranet Special` during the second half

Сирия9330.00 2150-2235 SYR 28.07 R Damascus, Adra English talk with Arab string music in background, news summary, but the modulation was so poor, that only a few words could be catched! 2200 hymn, ID and schedule in Spanish, another ID: ”Radio Dimasque de la Republica de Syria”, talk about Syria and Palestina, transmitter fall out for 3 minutes, ”Boletin de informacion”, songs. Obviously the same old transmitter with a very strong signal (S 9+30 dB), but severe transmitter hum and poor modulation 53242

Шри ЛанкаToday 5 Aug 12 Sri Lanka BC noted with News in English at 0215-0220 on 7190 & 11905. in between Hindi Service.This is not parallel to regular English Service on 6005, 9770 & 15745.

So on 7190 & 11905 several languages now in the mornings.0115 Bangla (Christian program)0130 Tamil0215 EnglishHindi at other times in mornings.Hindi dropped in evenings

Экв. Гвинея5005, Radio Nacional, Bata (presumed), 2025-2035, 05-08, religious program with a man in Spanish "El Rey Salomon", and another man translated into Vernacular. The male voice in Spanish have the characteristic accent of the Radio Bata speakers. At 2035 the transmission cut of abruptly. 34433.

ЭритреяAsmara-ERI noted VOBME-1 S=7 7205.045 at 0440 UT, Also VOBME-2nd program on 7179.990 covered by ETH White Noise digital jamming. ETH as usual in 31 mb on 9705.002 and \\ wandered up and down on 9558.544 ... x.566 kHz, at 0415-0425 UT Aug 1.

Япония11655, August 5 at 1324, NHK via CANADA with ``We Got the Beat``, by The Go-Go`s, girl-group from the 1980s; 1326 segue to song in Japanese.

NHK has no plans to continue this 13-15 UT broadcast to North America via another site once Sackville is kaput, but does plan to move most of the others to Guiana French; English at 0500 and 1200 will have to move to higher bands than 49m

1- China Radio International, listened at 9660 khz at 2125 utc, the 25th June 2012.2- China Radio International, listened at 5985 khz at 2030 utc, the 22th June 2012.3- China Radio International, listened at 9520 khz at 1620 utc, the 19th June 2012.